My company has made a policy to renew the licenses for existing versions of Symantec that clients have installed for one more year but not to upgrade them and inform the client why.
Any client that is fine with the time, we are removing and reinstalling with Nod32 2.7, my hopes is to see how Counterspy Enterprise works with Vipre and possibly go that route since Nod32's mgmt interface is terrible and 3.0 has been a disappointment. The only thing we use right now with Symantec is backup exec, and that's because we are just so familiar with it and can pretty much make it do whatever we need. Moving to a new software is a real bear when having to be able to support across a huge client base both old and new software and ensure that there data is secure. But Symantec is out and gone in almost everyway we can do it effectively. From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Symantec SEP Symantec and POS is a very familiar theme these days. I always said they are becoming the new CA. Z Edward E. Ziots Netwok Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -----Original Message----- From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Symantec SEP Here is what I remember seeing; -----Original Message----- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Latest antivirus test results from Andreas Marx in XLS format - Hide quoted text - I've heard much more bad things than good. Which is depressing, since Im stil slated to have to install it myself. Here's a bit of a posting from a local Boston-area UG withing the past 24 hours: Subject: [...] TechTips: Anyone been using Symantec EndPoint Protection? Msg Body: I have been a bit so far... What a POS... So far, it has taken down a DC, installed some firewall called "Network Threat Protection" (even when you don't want it to), and magically overwritten its own policies (which are managed from a centralized server). My favorite feature of the "Network Threat Prevention" is that it seemingly cuts off access to those pesky network shares. Oyyy. Follup up from OP: Oyyyy..... Amazingly, the product deployed OK in my test environment... Ugh... Jon On Jan 24, 2008 7:12 AM, Jon Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good luck! As I remember it the issue was not an outgoing issue but an incoming similar to yours. Jon On Jan 24, 2008 7:09 AM, Gavin Wilby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Access to the server is fine, its traversing it to the Internet that is blocked, but I cannot even see in the logs why its happening - on hold with Symantec now :( On Jan 24, 2008 12:02 PM, Jon Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I seem to remember someone having an issue, within the last couple of days of SEP putting up a firewall that was blocking access to the server, despite the config setting of no firewall or something to that effect. You might want to check the archives on this. Jon On Jan 24, 2008 6:53 AM, Gavin Wilby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Has anyone come across SEP blocking access to the Internet suddenly for clients on a domain with a multi-homed server acting as a RRAS box? All was OK with this site until this morning and now all clients have no Internet access - they can resolve Internet domain names but cant then get to them. There is no ISA on the server either. I am starting to really hate SEP now :( ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
